Sculpture

News about sculpture, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Chronology of Coverage

Nov. 9, 2014

Metropolitan Museum of Art will put sculpture of Adam by Venetian Renaissance master Tullio Lombardo on display, after more than a decade of painstaking restoration; sculpture fell from pedestal in 2002, breaking into hundreds of pieces; project took so long that there were rumors that statue was beyond repair; Met will also release videos of how sculpture was put back together, relying on radical approach to conservation. MORE

Feb. 24, 2014

Milan Journal; some residents of Milan are pushing to have a 24-foot-tall, 15-ton bronze statue of a stallion moved to a more visible position in time for the 2015 World Exposition; statue was gift from group of American donors and was positioned in a pedestrian piazza at the city's racetrack, where it gets few visitors. MORE

Feb. 5, 2014

Museum of Modern Art’s plan to allow greater access to its Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden is seen as step forward or backward, depending on perspective; some applaud opening up garden as more populist direction for institution while others say public access will destroy quiet oasis for bustle of city. MORE

Sep. 9, 2012

Neighborhood Joint column on the Modern Art Foundry, a bronze casting foundry in Astoria, Queens, that has been in the sculpture business for 80 years.. MORE

Sep. 9, 2012

Exhibit Foregrounding the Palisades, at the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers and Wave Hill's Glyndor Gallery in the Bronx, presents site-specific monumental sculptural installations by three contemporary artists; works are inspired by the 200-million-year-old cliffs lining the banks of the Hudson in New Jersey (Metropolitan/Westchester). MORE

Mar. 25, 2012

Op-Ed article by author Barbara Goldsmith highlights dispute in Sag Harbor, NY, over whether or not a sculpture is art or a structure; notes argument illustrates the age-old dilemma of what can and cannot be called art and who is and who is not qualified to make that determination. MORE